Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government Girl (RKO-Radio) bump-the-bumps its way with engaging roughness through the crowded bedrooms, offices and baths of wartime Washington. It is the first picture to be produced and directed, as well as written, by top flight Scripter Dudley Nichols. Nichols did not want the job, which was tossed into his lap, like somebody else's damp baby, and he is reported to be unhappy about the result...
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There was a jerky bump and the boat swerved and came to a halt. We leaped out into the darkness and with fearful suddenness sank in water up to our necks. Close by there was the sharp crackle of a machine gun and a whining and metallic plunking as if something were striking the side of our boat...
Those who were unable to watch the races followed them in the newspapers. The London Times published the daily bumps in chart form that, to the uninitiated, looked like sabotage in a wire factory. Each bump was minutely described, with a recording of the exact spot where it occurred-such as Haystack Corners, Free Ferry, The Willows or The Gut -instead of fractional times or distances. Not uncommon were such headlines as "Jesus bumped St. John...
...Bump Suppers. So it went for six hectic days. Then, in an orgiastic climax, the victorious colleges staged bump suppers, an occasion for all-night revelry that always ended with the climbing of college roofs and a colossal bonfire. Elated crewmen were affectionately dragged in & out of rooms, up & down stairs, until they could tilt no more...